RG senate + augustus

• After the deaths of Hirtius and Pansa “giving me a consular position in declaring opinions, and gave me imperium” and the people appointed him "consul"
• Appointed consul “thirteen times” and was in his "thirty seventh year of tribunician power"
• Augustus refused “further triumphs” and the “dictatorship”
• "I alone was to be responsible for the laws and morals, with supreme power" - reference to the 3rd Settlement (19-18 BC)
• Senate dedicated to him

  • Inclusion in Salian hymn
  • His santification which meant he was inviolate forever
  • Fortuna Redux consecrated and sacrifices made on it were to be called 'Augustalia'
• Efforts to improve the cultus + religio

  • “I restored 82 temples of the gods”
  • “I first put on the Games of Mars, which from that time, the consuls were to celebrate by senatorial decree and by law”
• “Embassies from kings in India were often sent to me”
• “I extinguished civil wars” - 27 BC First Settlement meant he relinquished unprecedented powers and so signified the end of civil war
• “ I transferred the republic from my power to the control of the senate and the Roman people” - reference to the 1st and 2nd Settlements (23 BC, gave up consulship)
• “I was named Augustus, and the doors of my house were publicly clothed in laurel, and a civic crown were fixed over my door and a golden shield was put in the Curia Julia” - cognomen given in 27 BC 1st Settlement
• Given the title of pater patriae